Quote by Norman Mailer
I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a s

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

Other quotes by Norman Mailer

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. – Norman Mailer

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Men
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. – Norman Mailer

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Media
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Other Quotes from
Writing
category

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. – Russell Lynes

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Writing

Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. – Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

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Writing

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. – Vladimir Nabakov

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Writing

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. – Norman Mailer, 1998

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Writing

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Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds. – Jewish Proverb

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Action

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. – Henry A. Wallace

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power

I cant believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me its the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice. – Michael Aston

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Attitude

Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi

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Knowledge